Re: [PATCH] Support OpenIndiana in GRUB2

[Seth Goldberg]

> > (These opinions are based on Oracle Solaris):
> > Some grub entries may not specify a bootfs, in which case, GRUB should
> > derive it from the bootfs property in the pool
> bootfs is an annoying one since on-disk AFAIK only its objnum is stored
> so we need to scan to determine its name. But for me it's only
> backward-compatibility issue. This property shouldn't be necessary with
> new or autodetected config.

  The key issue is that it's possible to have BEs on a system that predate the 
installation of GRUB2, so if one of THOSE BEs change the default bootfs (which 
they will, since the beadm activate subcommand does just that), the grub.cfg 
would be out of date.  I don't see any alternative to having GRUB2 do the scan 
to map the bootfs object to a zfs name :(.

 --S